Baseball Adds Postseason Weather Rule So Bud Selig Doesn’t Look Silly Again

By Ryan Corazza

Remember how it was raining and raining and raining during Game 5 of the World Series and the game clearly should have been delayed/called because of it, but the game kept marching onward because if it didn’t the Phillies would have been World Series champions based on a rainout, but then Bud Selig just waited until the Rays (thankfully) scored and then threw the game into a rain delay and it was eventually called for rain? Me too.

Well, this sort of thing ain’t ever gonna happen again:

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad weather.

“All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length affairs, and the rule will be so written,” Selig said Thursday following an owners’ meeting.

Selig said the change also will apply to tiebreaker games that decide division titles and wild-card berths.

“Any game that has significance for the postseason,” he said. “It will be very clear now. Everybody will know exactly.”

All things told, Bud Selig can’t really be blamed for the near catastrophe. There had never been a situation in World Series history where weather affected the game in such a manner; this was an extremely unique circumstance. And now, it’s been righted so nothing like this can ever happen again. Hooray.

Which is a shame really, because press conferences where Bud Selig makes faces like the picture above don’t happen often enough.

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